{"id":3823,"date":"2015-09-19T15:57:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T15:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2016-12-27T16:31:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T16:31:38","slug":"king-of-the-wild-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=3823","title":{"rendered":"King of frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"
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King of Frontier (and expansion)<\/p><\/div>\n

The King of Frontier<\/strong> arrived in the post this morning. I’ve been keen to acquire a copy of this ever since Tony Boydell started making frequent references to it in his BGG blog<\/a>, but — despite scouring amazon.jp + other Japanese stores for a copy that they were willing to ship internationally — my efforts were fruitless. Fruitless, that is, until copies showed up out of the blue on the Board Game Geek store last week \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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It’s a *really* nice filler-length game, for 1 to 4 people… and could perhaps be best described as Carcassonne<\/strong>-style kingdom building mashed up with the “leader decides” expand\/produce\/consume mechanism from Puerto Rico<\/strong>, with some cute\/distinctive stick-man graphic design in the mix. It feels like a “proper” euro, yet plays really briskly; I can imagine the 2-player game taking about 15 minutes with a bit more practice. (We’ve already played three times this afternoon … it’s proven to be quite a hit with Mrs S). <\/p>\n

\"Translations<\/a>

Translations courtesy of BGG user “sparkplug” (thanks!)<\/p><\/div>\n

There’s a tiny bit of language dependancy on the handful of Agricola:ACBAS<\/strong>-style “special building” tiles that you use to spice up each game, but not enough to be a chore, and there’s a useful set of downloadable translation cards on BGG which make this aspect play smoothly for ignorant gaijin \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

All in all, I’m really impressed. If you didn’t have to pay such a premium to import it, I’d be recommending it unreservedly; it’s a smashing game in a little box. As it stands, expect me to be twisting people’s arms to play this at Newcastle Gamers in the non-too-distant.<\/p>\n

The King of Frontier @ Board Game Geek<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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